[Efficacy of prevention of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in thyroid surgery].

Improvement of surgical treatment of thyroid gland lesions consisting in new operative technique of recurrent laryngeal nerve isolation using ultrasonic scalpel reduces the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury from 2.3% to 1%. At the same time, the number of extended procedures in the main group significantly exceeded that in the control group (by 2.5 times).